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<blockquote data-quote="cwa107" data-source="post: 971495" data-attributes="member: 24098"><p>It sounds to me like you've got bad sectors. A reformat cures it for a few days, but then corruption follows as the disk tries to write data to bad sectors. You can get a more concrete picture by running the <a href="http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/smartutility.html" target="_blank">SMART Utility</a>.</p><p></p><p>HDDs are one of, if not THE most common point of failure in modern PCs. It's not unusual at all to see a hard drive fail, particularly in a laptop where they are exposed to shock and vibration that a desktop would not be.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cwa107, post: 971495, member: 24098"] It sounds to me like you've got bad sectors. A reformat cures it for a few days, but then corruption follows as the disk tries to write data to bad sectors. You can get a more concrete picture by running the [URL="http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/smartutility.html"]SMART Utility[/URL]. HDDs are one of, if not THE most common point of failure in modern PCs. It's not unusual at all to see a hard drive fail, particularly in a laptop where they are exposed to shock and vibration that a desktop would not be. [/QUOTE]
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